Re: FreeBSD as a router

2009-06-12 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
AM To: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ivailo Tanusheff i.tanush...@procreditbank.bg; Odhiambo ワシントン odhia...@gmail.com; owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org; Anton an...@sng.by Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router You might also check out monowall

FreeBSD as a router

2009-06-11 Thread Anton
Hello all, I'm new to FreeBSD and I'm seeking help. For entire time I have been making everything with Windows, but now I'm stumbled upon problem, where only router on FreeBSD + IPFW could help me. I have installed FreeBSD, compiled kernel, found how to launch VPN connection to ISP. But, further

Re: FreeBSD as a router

2009-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
For entire time I have been making everything with Windows, but now I'm stumbled upon problem, where only router on FreeBSD + IPFW could help me. I have installed FreeBSD, compiled kernel, found how to launch VPN connection to ISP. But, further, I don't know how to go :-( I could not figure out

Re: FreeBSD as a router

2009-06-11 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Tanusheff Deputy Head of IT Department ProCredit Bank (Bulgaria) AD Anton an...@sng.by Sent by: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org 11.06.2009 12:01 Please respond to Anton an...@sng.by To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc Subject FreeBSD as a router Hello all, I'm new to FreeBSD and I'm

Re: FreeBSD as a router

2009-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
So I may suggest you use man ipfw and google a little bit - the answers are simple. Also I may suggest you to use ipf, which is in my point of view far more powerful. you are joking or just don't know ipfw. i used both, ipf when i used NetBSD and then in FreeBSD a bit, until i learned how to

Re: FreeBSD as a router

2009-06-11 Thread Odhiambo ワシントン
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Ivailo Tanusheff i.tanush...@procreditbank.bg wrote: Hi, I am not sure that FreeBSD + IPFW is the best option for you as you have not read how to use it yet. So I may suggest you use man ipfw and google a little bit - the answers are simple. Also I may

Re: FreeBSD as a router

2009-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
powerful. Hmm, PF would be better (not IPF) but I hear ipfw ha smore features . basicly - if you think ipfw can't do something - read manual again ;) exaggerated, but not very much... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD as a router

2009-06-11 Thread Derrick Ryalls
You might also check out monowall. It is a stripped down version of FreeBSD that can run off a small flash card and has a web interface. On Jun 11, 2009 6:05 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: powerful. Hmm, PF would be better (not IPF) but I hear ipfw ha smore

Re: FreeBSD as a router

2009-06-11 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Odhiambo ワシントン odhia...@gmail.com Sent by: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org 11.06.2009 15:42 To Ivailo Tanusheff i.tanush...@procreditbank.bg cc owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Anton an...@sng.by Subject Re: FreeBSD as a router On Thu, Jun 11, 2009

Re: FreeBSD as PF/Router/Firewall dying on the vine

2008-10-11 Thread Michael K. Smith
Hello Jeremy: On 10/6/08 9:30 PM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 06:08:50PM -0700, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: Hello All: We have a load balanced pair of PF boxes sitting in front of a whole bunch of server doing all manner of things! It's been

FreeBSD as PF/Router/Firewall dying on the vine

2008-10-06 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello All: We have a load balanced pair of PF boxes sitting in front of a whole bunch of server doing all manner of things! It's been working great up until today when it, well, didn't. Here's what I see in top -S. PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU

Re: FreeBSD as PF/Router/Firewall dying on the vine

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 06:08:50PM -0700, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: Hello All: We have a load balanced pair of PF boxes sitting in front of a whole bunch of server doing all manner of things! It's been working great up until today when it, well, didn't. Here's what I see in top

Re: Using FreeBSD as a router

2006-09-21 Thread Elijah Savage
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: It's time to upgrade my old Cisco 10Mbps router and I am seriously considering using FreeBSD. I have found some solutions and wonder what one would recommend here on the list... Solution 1: http://tomclegg.net/256-router Solution 2: http://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php I

Using FreeBSD as a router

2006-09-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
It's time to upgrade my old Cisco 10Mbps router and I am seriously considering using FreeBSD. I have found some solutions and wonder what one would recommend here on the list... Solution 1: http://tomclegg.net/256-router Solution 2: http://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php I want to duplicate my Cisco

Re: Using FreeBSD as a router

2006-09-20 Thread Henrik Lidström
Robert Fitzpatrick skrev: It's time to upgrade my old Cisco 10Mbps router and I am seriously considering using FreeBSD. I have found some solutions and wonder what one would recommend here on the list... Solution 1: http://tomclegg.net/256-router Solution 2: http://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php

Re: Using FreeBSD as a router

2006-09-20 Thread Brent
PROTECTED] --RIP Brother Dime-- -- Original Message --- From: Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:11:32 -0400 Subject: Using FreeBSD as a router It's time to upgrade my old Cisco 10Mbps router and I am seriously

using freebsd for a router

2005-11-24 Thread JD Bronson
dont know about performance pros/cons. It seems that the 'pf' that comes with FreeBSD 6.0 is equal to that within OBSD 3.8. So all things considered - is there any advantage to using FreeBSD for a router or just keeping things the way they are? Thanks for any comments or flames (I

Re: using freebsd for a router

2005-11-24 Thread Nathan Vidican
is quite the same - but I dont know about performance pros/cons. It seems that the 'pf' that comes with FreeBSD 6.0 is equal to that within OBSD 3.8. So all things considered - is there any advantage to using FreeBSD for a router or just keeping things the way they are? Thanks for any comments

Re: using freebsd for a router

2005-11-24 Thread JD Bronson
At 09:01 AM 11/24/2005, Nathan Vidican wrote: Not to start any flames of my own, know one can do a custom install and have the same result with FreeBSD - just pointing out the 'simple' default install does enable things you'll probably want to disable if just using the machine as a router

Re: using freebsd for a router

2005-11-24 Thread Michael Vince
is quite the same - but I dont know about performance pros/cons. It seems that the 'pf' that comes with FreeBSD 6.0 is equal to that within OBSD 3.8. So all things considered - is there any advantage to using FreeBSD for a router or just keeping things the way they are? Thanks for any

Re: FreeBSD server behind router-NAT; how to configure sendmail?

2005-04-04 Thread Rob
Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Am Sonntag, 3. April 2005 17:36 schrieb Rob: There is a FAQ, that explains: If you want all outgoing SMTP connections to use port 2525, you can use this in your .mc file: define(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 2525') define(`ESMTP_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 2525') I

Re: FreeBSD server behind router-NAT; how to configure sendmail?

2005-04-03 Thread Rob
Emanuel Strobl wrote:\ If you don't have /etc/mail/yourhostname.domain.mc then you should cd to /etc/mail and type make, after you edited the file make all install restart Thanks for your help. I generated the files with this make command, and all just worked out of the box. I can send email,

Re: FreeBSD server behind router-NAT; how to configure sendmail?

2005-04-03 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Am Sonntag, 3. April 2005 17:36 schrieb Rob: Emanuel Strobl wrote:\ If you don't have /etc/mail/yourhostname.domain.mc then you should cd to /etc/mail and type make, after you edited the file make all install restart Thanks for your help. I generated the files with this make command,

FreeBSD server behind router-NAT; how to configure sendmail?

2005-04-02 Thread Rob
Hi, My ISP provides me with a fixed IP address and a registered hostname. I use a Sitecom DC-207 that serves as a plain router, NAT and 4-port switch, to connect three Windows PCs and one FreeBSD PC simultaneously to the internet. The router gets the fixed IP address, whereas my FreeBSD system

Re: FreeBSD server behind router-NAT; how to configure sendmail?

2005-04-02 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 2. April 2005 18:07 schrieb Rob: Hi, My ISP provides me with a fixed IP address and a registered hostname. I use a Sitecom DC-207 that serves as a plain router, NAT and 4-port switch, to connect three Windows PCs and one FreeBSD PC simultaneously to the internet. The router

configuring freebsd dhcp server/router to listen on device

2004-04-08 Thread Anthony Philipp
Hello, Im trying to move away from my linksys wireless router and move onto an old Pentium 200 Mhz I have. It will be the gateway between my modem and my network. I installed isc-dhcp3 on the box and took the sample dhcp.conf file in the freebsd handbook. I edited this file to suite my needs

RE: configuring freebsd dhcp server/router to listen on device

2004-04-08 Thread JJB
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 3:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: configuring freebsd dhcp server/router to listen on device Hello, Im trying to move away from my linksys wireless router and move onto an old Pentium 200 Mhz I have. It will be the gateway between my modem and my network. I

SNMP FreeBSD as a router.

2004-03-26 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
Hello, FreeBSD gurus! I have a FreeBSD 5.2.1 box that I'm using as a router and I would like to watch how its interfaces are being used. I would like to use MRTG in another FreeBSD box to graph the use of the interfaces, but I do not how to make my router an SNMP agent. How do I do that? Any

Re: SNMP FreeBSD as a router.

2004-03-26 Thread Jorn Argelo
I believe that there's an SNMP daemon shipping with FreeBSD. At least, I have one on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 Box and I never installed anything regarding SNMP. /usr/local/sbin/snmpd Cheers, Jorn On Friday 26 March 2004 15:00, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: Hello, FreeBSD gurus! I have a FreeBSD

Re: SNMP FreeBSD as a router.

2004-03-26 Thread Breno Colom
El 26/26/2004 09:50AM, Jorn Argelo escribio: I believe that there's an SNMP daemon shipping with FreeBSD. At least, I have one on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 Box and I never installed anything regarding SNMP. /usr/local/sbin/snmpd FreeBSD doesnt ship an SNMP daemon with the base system, if it did

Re: SNMP FreeBSD as a router.

2004-03-26 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Friday 26 March 2004 16:09, Breno Colom wrote: El 26/26/2004 09:50AM, Jorn Argelo escribio: I believe that there's an SNMP daemon shipping with FreeBSD. At least, I have one on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 Box and I never installed anything regarding SNMP. /usr/local/sbin/snmpd FreeBSD doesnt

Re: SNMP FreeBSD as a router.

2004-03-26 Thread Breno Colom
El 26/26/2004 09:50AM, Jorn Argelo escribio: I believe that there's an SNMP daemon shipping with FreeBSD. At least, I have one on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 Box and I never installed anything regarding SNMP. /usr/local/sbin/snmpd FreeBSD doesnt ship an SNMP daemon with the base system, if it did

RE: SNMP FreeBSD as a router.

2004-03-26 Thread Andras Kende
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eduardo Viruena Silva Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SNMP FreeBSD as a router. Hello, FreeBSD gurus! I have a FreeBSD 5.2.1 box that I'm using as a router and I

RE: SNMP FreeBSD as a router.

2004-03-26 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Andras Kende wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eduardo Viruena Silva Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SNMP FreeBSD as a router. Hello, FreeBSD gurus! I have

Re: SNMP FreeBSD as a router.

2004-03-26 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Breno Colom wrote: El 26/26/2004 09:50AM, Jorn Argelo escribio: I believe that there's an SNMP daemon shipping with FreeBSD. At least, I have one on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 Box and I never installed anything regarding SNMP. /usr/local/sbin/snmpd FreeBSD doesnt ship an

Re: SNMP FreeBSD as a router.

2004-03-26 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Breno Colom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FreeBSD doesnt ship an SNMP daemon with the base system, if it did it would've It looks to me like it does, but names it basic or Berkeley (?) SNMP deamon: /usr/sbin/bsnmpd I know little of SNMP, and haven't install such a SNMP-related port, but I did

Re: SNMP FreeBSD as a router.

2004-03-26 Thread Breno Colom
03/26/2004 01:04PM, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: FreeBSD doesnt ship an SNMP daemon with the base system, if it did it would've It looks to me like it does, but names it basic or Berkeley (?) SNMP deamon: /usr/sbin/bsnmpd Ah, yes, crosschecked in a 5.2.1 box, digging a little it seems

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-27 Thread Chris Dillon
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: Already tried that and it did improve things a little. I tried setting the HZ to 1000 and it didn't make much of a difference. Is there a larger number that actually works well? You can try higher HZ numbers, but you might run into other problems.

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-27 Thread Aloha Guy
Chris Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: Already tried that and it did improve things a little. I tried setting the HZ to 1000 and it didn't make much of a difference. Is there a larger number that actually works well? You can try higher HZ numbers, but you

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:53 PM, Aloha Guy wrote: Here is the HZ setting: kern.clockrate: { hz = 100, tick = 1, profhz = 1024, stathz = 128 } There's your issue right there: if you care about the millisecond level granularity of network traffic going by this router, you ought to set HZ to 1000 as

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Aloha Guy
Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:53 PM, Aloha Guy wrote: Here is the HZ setting: kern.clockrate: { hz = 100, tick = 1, profhz = 1024, stathz = 128 } There's your issue right there: if you care about the millisecond level granularity of network traffic going by

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 26, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Aloha Guy wrote: Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's your issue right there: if you care about the millisecond level granularity of network traffic going by this router, you ought to set HZ to 1000 as documented in man dummynet. [ ... ] Knew I forgot to

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Aloha Guy
Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 26, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Aloha Guy wrote: Charles Swiger wrote: There's your issue right there: if you care about the millisecond level granularity of network traffic going by this router, you ought to set HZ to 1000 as documented in man dummynet.

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Aloha Guy
Chris Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: You're right that additional delay while adding a hop is to be expected, which is less than 0.1ms to the FreeBSD box but everything past the FreeBSD machine is adding atleast 5ms up to 300ms in the traceroutes when

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Dillon
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: What do you have HZ set to (see sysctl kern.clockrate)? I think I remember your original message showing you using pipes and queues and the HZ setting can affect those. Also see if your latency improves if you remove all pipe and queue rules (other

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Dillon
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: You're right that additional delay while adding a hop is to be expected, which is less than 0.1ms to the FreeBSD box but everything past the FreeBSD machine is adding atleast 5ms up to 300ms in the traceroutes when the normal is no more than 20ms for the

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Aloha Guy
Chris Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: What do you have HZ set to (see sysctl kern.clockrate)? I think I remember your original message showing you using pipes and queues and the HZ setting can affect those. Also see if your latency improves if you

FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-25 Thread Aloha Guy
Greetings everyone: I'm using a FreeBSD based notebook (P4-M2.6Ghz, 2GB RAM) on the built in 3COM 920c (905c compatible) using the xl0 driver with the firewall enabled and set to open and rc.conf basically has: xl0 configured as 208.204.x.224 netmask 255.255.255.0 with the alias 192.168.0.1

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-25 Thread Chris Dillon
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: Any ideas what is causing this? Is it the xl0 driver because I've used FreeBSD machines as ethernet routers before with a similar setup except there was no NAT involved and used the fxp drivers and it never had this problem. Thanks for your help in

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-25 Thread Aloha Guy
Chris Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: Any ideas what is causing this? Is it the xl0 driver because I've used FreeBSD machines as ethernet routers before with a similar setup except there was no NAT involved and used the fxp drivers and it never had this